Assignment Reflections
This is a reflection assignment to thoroughly examine yourself in the context of technical project management to understand what you can do, want to do, need to do, and will do to improve what have you learnt about yourself through technical project management.
In this assignment, examine, discuss, and provide a complete two-page document by answering, but not limited to, the following questions, for example:
What personality type are you and what does that mean about your management style, your potential, your strengths and weaknesses?
What type of leader do you aspire to be and what do you need to develop towards that goal?
What type of negotiator are you and what must you work on to improve?
What will you do about the antipatterns you cause or enable, and those that you see around you?
Do you understand and appreciate the courses of schedule failure and how to prevent or mitigate them?
How well do you understand the cost and effort drivers of the work you do? Do you use this understanding to guide your estimates?
To conclude, develop a simple action plan for your own development in these areas. If you are a competing negotiator, what will you focus on to develop as a win-win thinker? If you are a Headless Chicken, what will you do to help organize, prioritize and focus? I want you to take this opportunity to boil down the technical project management course into a set of "take-aways" (4 or 5 of them) that you can focus on to improve your project management skills and fulfill your potential.